Lot no. 67
[MARINE]. FORFAIT (Pierre). An elementary treatise on the masting of ships, for the use of students in the Navy. Paris, Bachelier, 1815. In-4, shagreened basane, smooth spine decorated, daffodil edges (Binding of the period). Second edition, revised, corrected and considerably enlarged by Étienne Willaumez, capitaine de vaisseau. It includes 25 plates outside the text, most of them folding, 24 of which were engraved by Bénard and already appeared in the original 1788 edition, and a 25th engraved by E. Collin. Epidermoles on the boards, slight loss at the corners, pale angular wetness on pp. 1-32 and on plate 24, loss in the margin of plate 13.
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